Free Speech Stifled

Film maker and Dutch member of Parliament Geert Wilders is facing criminal charges for daring to bring up some uncomfortable truths about Islam. His movie Fitna is being called incitement because he dared to make a correlation between Islamist terrorist mass murderers who believed they acted under Koranic authority and often stated in their own last videotaped statements before they acted, that they were committing their acts in the name of Islam and therefore, that the Muslim faith has to bear at least some culpability in acts perpetrated in its name and called for in some of its sacred text. The London and Madrid atrocities were not carried out in the name of Christ or Judaism or in the name of Mars for that matter but were part of a Jihad intended eventually to bring down the West. Are the courts in the Netherlands giving up the most basic Western value, freedom of speech, out of fear of the shahid, the Muslim holy warrior so dedicated to Jihad that he wishes to die in the endeavor or were the Dutch courts bought and paid for with oil money? This prosecution is intended to stop criticism of Islam and will have a chilling effect on free speech. Only controversial speech requires the protection of government; otherwise we will all be living in a kumbaya kindergarten.